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LENIN COLLECTION
7687
TO TSENTROPECHAT*
July 21, 1921

I request that you inform me what measures you have taken to execute paragraph 9 of the resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of July 1 on the accountability of local organs, as well as for the proper and rapid distribution of this resolution to all local institutions. 

You must inform me of the deadlines by which delivery of this resolution to the gubernial, district, and volost organs will be completed.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

7698
NOTE TO THE MANAGER OF AFFAIRS OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS**
July 23, 1921

We cannot tolerate such red tape. Achieve acceleration 
and verify!

Lenin

* The letter was dictated by V. I. Lenin by telephone. Published according to a typewritten copy.

** Written on the following message from Tsentropechat (reply to V. I. Lenin's request of July 21, 1921): "Tsentropechat has not yet received the All-Russian Central Executive Committee resolution of July 1 on the accountability of local organs at all (except for 2 copies sent with your letter). At present only 3,000 copies have been printed, which are at the disposal of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. After printing at the printing-house of the Cheka we will take all measures for delivery and will inform you.

Regarding the delivery of 'Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn' to the economic conferences, we are issuing instructions to all divisions of Tsentropechat for supplying the economic conferences with this newspaper in 2 copies as a priority matter."

YEAR 1921
2459
RESOLUTION ON THE REPORT OF THE COMMANDANT 
OF THE KREMLIN
June 6, 1921

To the Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense Comrade Lenin

Everything possible for improving the food supply of the military school in the Kremlin has been done:

1. Coordination with the Revolutionary Military Council and the People's Commissariat of Food has been achieved to retain the combat ration for the school...

2. At present the school is fully provisioned in reality for three weeks.

3. I request your personal assistance in accelerating the evacuation of the Arsenal: all measures I have taken through the Commander-in-Chief and the Central Administrative Board will not speed matters up. If we are unable to evacuate the Arsenal within a month, the school by autumn will be placed in an absolutely hopeless position. And therefore I ask you, Vladimir Ilyich, to direct the attention of the proper organs to this matter.

2154
FROM A LETTER OF L. A. FOTIEVA
June 6, 1921

Lydia Aleksandrovna!

Please distribute the enclosed, having read it, 
so as to know the contents...

My ink, as you can see, is poor: please send me a small bottle of good ink for a fountain pen.

Send also the following telegram:

Kharkov, to Sammer

How stands the matter of Vneshtorg on the Ukraine? the size of your exchange fund? actually on hand? how many steamships in transit to southern ports? are you sending details here in writing? to whom and when exactly did you send them? Inform me at least briefly by telegraph or by telephone to my secretary Fotieva.

Chairman of Council of Labor and Defense Lenin

Check by telephone whether Sammer is in Kharkov; if not, where he is and when he will return. (If by telephone, write down his answer precisely.)

I request more envelopes. And a bit more paper.

With communist greetings

Lenin

17*
MANAGER OF AFFAIRS OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS

It is necessary to press and verify 
yourself personally suddenly once or 
twice a month*

Lenin